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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






2. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






3. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






4. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






5. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






6. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






7. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






8. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






9. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






10. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






11. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






12. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






13. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






14. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






15. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






16. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






17. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






18. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






19. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






20. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






21. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






22. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






23. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






24. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






25. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






26. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






27. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






28. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






29. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






30. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






31. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






32. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






33. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






35. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






36. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






37. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






38. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






39. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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40. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






41. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






42. Multisensory Structured Language Education






43. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






44. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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45. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






46. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






47. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






48. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






49. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






50. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound







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